People v. Lippert

At the conclusion of a bench trial in the circuit court of Fulton County defendant, Stanley Lippert, was found guilty of the armed robbery of two elderly couples and was sentenced to a term of six years’ imprisonment. A divided appellate court held that a showup identification of defendant by the robbery victims and a subsequent confession should have been suppressed and remanded the cause for a new trial. (93 Ill. App. 3d 273.) That court held that Terry v. Ohio (1968), 393 U.S. 1, 20 L. Ed. 2d 889, 88 S. Ct. 1868, provided insufficient basis for the detention and transportation of the…